Subpoena Quotes
He had subpoenaed several reporters to testify in a case where senior White House aids had improperly disclosed the identity of a CIA covert operative. One served months in jail rather than disclose her source. Fitzgerald claimed that the exception should be when the reporter was an eye witness to a crime.
Referring to the loyalty hearings that were being held by congressional investigating committees:
Abrams had been convicted of "withholding information from Congress" in his Congressional testimony.
His charge was to investigate leaks of the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. The Chief of Staff to the Vice President, Scooter Libby, had in Fitzgerald’s view, lied to the grand jury, and was therefore indicted.